Alas, there are no clear, universally agreed upon standards for return receipts. There are also all sorts of privacy issues.
In the last version of Outlook, it looks like the return receipts functionality continues to get more and more buried for that reason. On 12/30/02 5:31 PM, "M. Tamer �zsu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure if this is entirely accurate. There are two return receipts > that you can ask for: one for delivery and the other for reading. The second > one, if I am not wrong, is what depends on the client. However, the first is > dependent on the mail server. Outlook has both of these and I use it on my > office machine. I normally don't bother with the "read return receipt" but > I have used "delivery return receipt" many times on Internet mail and it > gives you some assurance that the mail made it to the client's mailbox. > > ==Tamer > >> From: Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 15:38:59 -0800 >> To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: Receipt >> >> To add to what Eric says: Return receipts work well within a closed >> environment, like some company mail systems. Since most mail clients, >> including Entourage, DO NOT respond to requests for return receipts, it >> makes very little sense to waste time on implementing it. >> >> That being said, it is not possible to add a header via script since >> "source" and "headers" of a message are both read-only. >> >> >> On or near 12/30/02 2:35 PM, Eric Hildum at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: >> >>> Given the spotty the implementation of the response to the header, there is >>> really little point in having the feature implemented in Entourage. Few mail >>> clients respond to it and most of the time the mail recipient will decline >>> to send the acknowledgement anyway. >> > -- Dennis T Cheung | [EMAIL PROTECTED] This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
